Avoid using words that might offend someone’s racial or moral sensibilities.sensibilitysen‧si‧bil‧i‧ty /ˌsensəˈbɪləti/ noun (plural sensibilities) 
her religious sensibilitiesoffend/wound somebody’s sensibilities Avoid using words that might offend someone’s racial or moral sensibilities.2[uncountable] the ability to understand feelings, especially those expressed in literature or art: the sensibility of the artist
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Very few people have the refined sensibility needed to appreciate these paintings.
- But the anti-army writers also showed a need to appeal to the sensibilities of their Tory allies in Parliament.
- Correspondence is, for me, a luxury which stirs my sensibilities, especially if it be with an old friend.
- From the first moment we spoke I knew you were a girl with great sensibility, and I admire you very much.
- His secular, rationalist sensibilities created an ideal of liberalism based on the individual pursuit of self-interest.
- The important question is not how popular cultural sensibilities shift but why they do.
- There is the fallible narrator, escaping his past, indulging his dandified sensibilities, inevitably sucked into danger beyond his understanding.
- Trust your own palate and your own sensibility.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Avoid using words that might offend someone’s racial or moral sensibilities.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Avoid using words that might offend someone’s racial or moral sensibilities.· But their work represented an incomplete commitment to the new sensibility.
· Efforts were made to anticipate religious sensibilities.· Local religious sensibilities must also be observed.· But these ideas were equally powerfully present in reformers of more obvious religious sensibility.
VERB· Like all artistes, he is a sensitive man and you never offend his sensibilities.· Politicians have perceived little gain in granting petitions for something that offends the sensibilities of a significant number of the heterosexual majority.· They couldn't all just reject facts because they offended their sensibilities.· Even the mayonnaise has no egg in it, so as not to offend vegan sensibilities.
WORD FAMILYadjectivesensibleinsensiblesenselesssensitive ≠ insensitivesensorynonsensicalinsensatenounsense ≠ nonsensesensibility ≠ insensibilitysensitivity ≠ insensitivitysenselessnesssensitizationsensoradverbsensiblysenselesslysensitively ≠ insensitivelyverbsensesensitize
1[countable, uncountable] the way that someone reacts to particular subjects or types of behaviour: her religious sensibilitiesoffend/wound somebody’s sensibilities Avoid using words that might offend someone’s racial or moral sensibilities.2[uncountable] the ability to understand feelings, especially those expressed in literature or art: the sensibility of the artist